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From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [WDYT] org-attach-sync better remove an empty attachment directory?
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:34:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8bdljwn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf6h7ueq.fsf@gmail.com>


Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> org-attach-sync can be used to "Synchronize the current outline node
> with its attachments."  Which is great AFAICT.
>
> What do you think about letting org-attach-sync remove the attachment
> directory if it's empty?
>
> Rationale: Nobody needs an empty attachment directory.
>   

This seems pretty reasonable to me provided it only removes an
attachments directly which was created by org-attach-sync. If the
directory existed or was created by something external, then removing it
probably should not be done.

Likely this is something which should be controllable via a custom
setting?


-- 
Tim Cross


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-08  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-07 20:15 [WDYT] org-attach-sync better remove an empty attachment directory? Marco Wahl
2021-07-08  0:34 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2021-07-08  7:45   ` Marco Wahl
2021-07-08  7:56     ` Tim Cross
2021-07-08  8:28       ` Colin Baxter
2021-07-08 17:36         ` Marco Wahl
2021-07-08 18:53           ` Marco Wahl
2021-07-08 19:28             ` Tim Cross
2021-07-09  6:15               ` Colin Baxter
2021-07-09 19:18                 ` Marco Wahl
2021-07-10 13:20                   ` Colin Baxter

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